Psychoanalytic Dialogues back issues from January 2007:
The Therapist, the Patient, and the Therapeutic Setting: Mutual Construction of the Setting as a Therapeutic Factor
Jan 01, 2007; ... Among analytic thinkers, the therapeutic setting has traditionally been perceived as maintained only by the therapist. I propose an alternative perspective, which sees the setting as constructed and maintained by both partners in the therapeutic interaction-the therapist and the patient-and ...
The Wisdom of Sharing a Frame: Commentary on Papers by Anthony Bass and Ilana Laor
Jan 01, 2007; ... In this discussion I agree with Anthony Bass, who shows how the analytic frame has properties that involve both the process and the structure, and I suggest replacing the term structure with the term constraints. Bass considers analytic frames as contexts: Different frames organize different ...
When the Frame Doesn't Fit the Picture
Jan 01, 2007; ... I reconsider the function and construction of the psychoanalytic frame from an intersubjective, relational perspective. The analytic frame is meant to create and stand for, both practically and symbolically, a therapeutic structure with clear and safe boundaries in which the process of therapy ...
Reply to Commentary by Daniel N. Stern
Jan 01, 2007; ... I respond to Stern's largely affirming discussion by fleshing out a few points, for example, improvisation is more than just being spontaneous, it is ensemble work that plays off and with patterns emergent in the personalities of both parties. These patterns illuminate something about the ...
Commentary on Paper by Philip A. Ringstrom
Jan 01, 2007; ... PHILIP RINGSTROM'S PAPER SNEAKS UP ON THE READER. IT IS ONLY toward the end that one realizes the scope of what he is attempting to do. His aim, it seems to me, is to begin a systematic structuring of an improvisational form of relational psychoanalysis, one that carries a major current of the ...
Does Discussion of the Setting Unsettle Our Practice? Reply to Commentary
Jan 01, 2007; ... In my reply to Susi Federici-Nebbiosi, I emphasize and elaborate on the points of agreement between us, as well as the points where our thinking differs. My primary point of difference regards the suggestion that my accepting Yossi for short-term treatment was acquiescence to his request. This ...
Scenes That Write Themselves: Improvisational Moments in Relational Psychoanalysis
Jan 01, 2007; ... Psychoanalytic concepts, in general, are sorely lacking in addressing the present moment phenomenon of the psychoanalytic encounter. The relational perspective has comparably suffered from not addressing the issue of temporality. This paper addresses this lack by focusing on the present moment ...
Of Coals and Eskimos: Reply to Commentary
Jan 01, 2007; ... I first point out that there are similarities between the Fiscalini and me, and then I try to clarify some differences. Fiscalini suggests that I may be "inadvertently taking coals to Newcastle," in arguing in favor of a well-known concept. Coming from a Freudian orthodox background, I have ...
The Whole and the Parts: Working in the Analytic Field
Jan 01, 2007; ... Field concepts have been imported from physics into psychology and philosophy, in the work of writers such as Kurt Lewin and Maurice Merleu-Ponty. In psychoanalysis, they are found in the work of Harry Stack Sullivan, Enrique Pichon-Rivière, and Willy and Madeleine Baranger. They are essential ...
"Expanding the Frame": Reply to Commentary
Jan 01, 2007; ... In responding to a discussion by Susi Federici-Nebbiosi of "When the Frame Doesn't Fit the Picture," I further consider the ways in which analysts and analysands together create the best conditions for their work. I emphasize that analytic work best fulfills its potential when it grows out of a ...
The Coparticipant Field: Commentary on a Paper by Juan Tubert-Oklander
Jan 01, 2007; ... Psychoanalytic field theory is integral to relational praxis. In his study of the analytic field and its interpersonal complexities and relational intricacies, Tubert-Oklander emphasizes its clinical promise. Tubert-Oklander's field orientation, however, is a conservative and limited one. This ...